Conditions of Faith: A Novel (edit title)

Shelfari edited the description of Conditions of Faith: A Novel Sunday, August 2 2009.

• "On her honeymoon trip, Emily Stanton-young, beautiful, woefully unsatisfied-lies awake long after her adoring husband has fallen asleep. Studying his face she puzzles over this new intimacy she's entered into, 'a bond almost of strangers who find themselves the victims of a common disaster...'absorbing...exquisitely sensual scenes." ( The Cleveland Plain Dealer ) Set in the 1920s and journeying through Australia, Tunisia, and France, Conditions of Faith is a novel of one woman's life and the events that define it: a hasty wedding to an older man; an act of adultery; an unplanned pregnancy-and the insistent, gnawing hunger for a purpose in life beyond marriage and motherhood. "Ambitious and convincing...highly readable...it explores the psyche of a woman torn between family and career with subtlety and grace." ( The New York Times Book Review ) "It lingers in my mind...I am still thinking about Emily."(Colleen McCullough)

Shelfari edited the contributors of Conditions of Faith: A Novel Sunday, July 26 2009.

• Added a contributor: Alex Miller: (Primary Author)

Shelfari edited the first sentence of Conditions of Faith: A Novel Thursday, July 16 2009.

• When Emily reached the warm shallows she stood up and waded to the edge of the sand where she had left her towel.